Friday Fortnite Won’t Return Until After Champions Series
By Ethan Smith
Keemstar and UMG announced that Friday Fortnite will be taking a backseat to the Champions Series and not return until Sep 27 on Friday.
Killer Keemstar and UMG have been running a very successful event for Fortnite in the form of Friday Fortnite for some time but with the upcoming Trios Champions Series going on until the end of September, Keemstar has decided to cancel Friday Fortnite until the Champions Series concludes.
Damn , Epic is doing Trio event for 5 weeks so #FridayFortnite won’t return till September 27th!!! Going to focus all my energy on #MinecraftMonday for next 5 weeks!!! pic.twitter.com/okx2B6oDL0
— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) August 16, 2019
This is some interesting news as of course many pros will be entering the Champions Series over the course of the next few weeks but smaller professional players and content creators who compete every Friday will now being taking a break from the action for over a month.
Yeah I’m sorry man. I literally need to clone myself so I can get more done. And on top of it big teams dropping out last min I had to make teh call to cancel instead of giving the viewers a less than ideal #FridayFortnite today. But I started working on next week’s brackets. https://t.co/zYw9iAUNuF
— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) August 16, 2019
The event was already cancelled for August 16 due to the fact that some Duos had already dropped and Keemstar could not fill the field for the event and he made the executive decision to cancel until after Fortnite’s latest competitive event concludes.
Due to a few big teams dropping out last min & I was already short a few teams & didn’t get chance to fill cus I was away on bussniess. We are canceling today’s #FridayFortnite! Please send all ur hate mail to @rickyberwick! He has nothing to do with this but it will be funny. pic.twitter.com/rRik06EL5v
— KEEM 🍿 (@KEEMSTAR) August 16, 2019
It does sting a little bit for some players, especially NateHillTV and FaZe Funk, who won the tournament last week and were looking to repeat and gain more points for this season.
As for looking ahead to Friday Fortnite on September 27, it will surely be arguably the biggest one to date as I am sure plenty of pros will want to compete after a few weeks of competition being that the teams will be fresh and at their best when it comes to gameplay.
Ninja will likely partake as well as NickMercs, benjyfishy, Bugha, TSM Myth and of course some of the former winners and the action should be jammed packed for UMG and Keemstar when they decide to kick things back up near the end of next month.
As for now, we will likely shift our competitive coverage to the Trios Champions Series, following the event week-by-week and keeping everyone up-to-date on everything you need to know regarding the competitive scene.